November 17 - 20, 2026 · San Francisco

Join us at Microsoft Ignite 2026

At Ignite 2026, Fireworks is showing teams how to run open models at scale on Microsoft Foundry, with the speed, cost, and control to ship. Find us at sessions, demos, and at our lounge all week.

Where to meet us

Booth 1427

Stop by to chat with our product team about recent launches and demo our newest products.

Ember Lounge at Sextant

For deeper conversations, by appointment only. Escape the show floor noise and meet with our R&D leadership and executives in a 1:1 meeting. Rest, recharge, and grab a coffee on us . . . just steps from Moscone!

After Dark Reception

Microsoft startups community, AI-Native and startup prospects. Lower-stakes relationship warming before the show starts.

Fireworks on stage

Catch a product leader or customer speaking throughout the week about Fireworks and Fireworks on Foundry.

45 Minute session

Own your intelligence with Fireworks on Foundry

Wednesday, November 18 · 9:00 - 9:45am · AMC Metreon | Level 3, Theater 9

Generalized model gains are flattening because the data that would improve a model on your domain sits inside your company. Discover how customers use Fireworks to customize open models and create differentiated AI experiences at lower cost. For architects and technical leaders weighing open models: Explore which workloads to consider, the training needed, and how shifting 2% of weights can propel an application past its category. Experience a case study and live demo of Fireworks on Foundry.

Speaker:

Rob Ferguson, Fireworks · VP Technology & Strategy

45 Minute session

The end of token-maxxing? Scale AI with less spend

Wednesday, November 18 · 1:45 - 2:30 pm · AMC Metreon | Level 3, Theater 14

Enterprise token consumption has exploded, leaving engineering teams balancing AI innovation against rising costs. Learn how intelligent model routing for software development can help you do both. Discover how task- and cache-aware routing directs requests to the right open and closed models to maintain code quality while reducing token spend. See real coding workloads in action through a customer example and live demo of Fireworks Nexus.

Speaker:

Chris Harris, Fireworks · Product Engineering Lead

25 Minute session

Frontier open models, production-ready: Fireworks on Foundry

Open models are only as good as the platform that runs them. In this session, see how Fireworks on Microsoft Foundry takes frontier open models from evaluation to production — better price-performance, workload-specific sizing, and enterprise-grade reliability on Azure, plus a first look at Fireworks training via the marketplace. Learn from Motif’s best practices for using open models on Fireworks on Foundry to build agentic workloads for their customers.

Speaker:

Jetashree Ravi · Applied ML Engineer Lead

Customer Spotlight session

Training and Fine tuning and Inferencing in Foundry with PayPal

Hero Foundry Breakout Session featuring Fireworks

Speaker:

Srinivasan Manoharan, PayPal · Director AI ML Platform

Fireworks x Microsoft Foundry

Fireworks provides a production-grade inference engine built specifically for modern open-weight models, now available natively within Microsoft Foundry.

Watch our launch announcement.

Microsoft Azure

Join Fireworks at Microsoft Ignite

November 17 - 20, 2026 · San Francisco